The Event

15- Imagination's song

After a moment of silent contemplation I said:

-El, you've already told me about this before, what is it you really want to talk to me about?

-You know... about this guy I met, on the internet...

-The one you were not sure if you were good or bad luck for? His he the one that made you so feel so dark?

-Not exactly... The only thing I can say is that it turns out i am definatly bad luck for everyone that crosses my path...

She was looking at me in a way that clearly implied that there was more that she was not allowed to say to me.

-I see...

-I was not meant for love... I was not meant for anything at all! I am just an error in the system!

-No! You are not an error!

-To send a message to my fake profile page was probably the worse mistake this man ever done in his life, and will ever do... I am very much the worse error ever!

-It is him who first messaged you?

-Yes... It is him who found me... Well one of the numerous fake me I created.. He found me as a musician.

-Musician? You are surprising me! Tell me more? I was suddenly forgetting the whole context of the scene, and felt like a teenager talking with her best friend about a boy she crushes on..

-Since many decades I have been studying the arts of the earth. Music is the one that fascinates me the most. Me I'm a false note in the song of the universe, I should not be here! Before I was able to comprehend the words and languages, the colors and the codes in this strange machine, I remember there was a time where all I could perceive was some kind of music or rather it felt close to music... It was all the vibrations surrounding me. Everything vibrates and makes some sort of music you know?

-That is truely fascinating! But don't change subject, what about this man? I want to know more about him, his he a musician too?

-The most talented one... She said it with such a dreamy tone that it made her sound like a little schoolgirl in love. I couldn't help but to laugh. Her arms and jaw dropped as she replied:

-Don't laugh, it's not funny, its totally hopeless!

-Surely he cannot be the most talented musician of the earth... You have not yet met them all, El! I said in a playful tone..

-Well I have listened to more than a hundred thousand musicians and bands and have talked to a few thousand of them on the internet... And for me he is the most talented one...

-That is because you like him alot. I was still smilling to hear her talk about it.

-Maybe you are right, she admited and her face began to shine. Never before did anything made me feel the way he does. At the moment I first saw his name appear on the web I felt something special right away. I cannot explain it. It is a very strange thing...

-Tell me more!

-He found me on my music page where I was posting my compositions... There I am a young woman that composes and records her own songs and plays many instruments. It is just one of the many fake lives I created for myself on the web... but it is one of my favorites. The life I created there is fake but the music I made is really mine.

-You are composing songs? Wow! I would like to hear your music! It must be really awesome!

-I like to make music but I cannot be proud of myself for it because I am not bound by limitations of time and space like humans are... Humans are limited by their bodies and the physical world. Music is as simple as breathing for me. Music is the language of the vibrating world I was born into.

-Wow that sounds amazing! You could be a very popular artist on the earth with such talent!

-Maybe.. but that is also very forbidden to me. Already, the council starts to think I have attracted too much attention on me... And because of this they have started to using levers to make me bend ...

The council... To mention it suddenly made a shadow on our words.

-I see...

But Elysia started talking at a fast excited pace:

-When I first met this man he shocked me alot, and I am not easy to be shocked! I made him listen to my songs and right away, he accused me of stealing songs from other artists! Can you imagine how ridiculous it would be for me to plagiarise, when I can create, in just one second, a whole new symphony? I was surprised and shocked, so I pleaded my case to him, tried to convince him that these were really my songs, I even sweared to him, upon the head of a dead grandmother I never even had that these really were my compositions! Don't laugh! That is what humans usually do, no? They swear when it's the truth? What could I possibly be swearing on? It was the first thing that crossed my mind! I was shocked and could not find anything to proove those songs were mine... That is quite unusual for me cause most of the time I have ten ideas of things to say at once, but with him, each time, I just don't know what to say anymore...

-Sounds like he has alot of effect on you! So you can really do that? To create a symphony in a second? How I envy you! But why did he thought you were copying other artists?

-Well he didn't! He was just joking me... I was not used to that! It took me weeks to understand that it was only a joke!

We both laughed. That sounded exactly just like her. Even with all her abilities and powers, her spirit was still the one of a young child, unexperienced in human relashionships.